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Canadiin  Instituta  for  Historical  Microraproductiona  /  Institut  Canadian  do  microreproductiont  historiquas 


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Th*  copy  filmtd  h«r«  ha*  ba«n  raproducad  thank* 
to  tha  9anaro*ity  of: 

National  Library  of  Canada 


L'axamplaira  film*  fut  raproduit  gric*  t  la 
g*n*roiitt  da: 

Bibliothequa  nationale  du  Canada 


Tha  imagaa  appaaring  har*  ar*  tha  baat  quality 
pouibi*  cen*id*ring  tha  condition  and  lagibility 
of  tha  original  copy  and  in  kaaping  with  tha 
filming  contract  apacification*. 


La*  imaga*  (uivania*  ont  ttt  raproduita*  av*c  I* 
plui  grand  loin,  compta  lanu  da  la  condition  *i 
da  la  nattat*  da  I'axainplair*  filmt,  at  an 
conformitt  avac  laa  condition*  du  contrat  da 
filmaga. 


Original  copia*  in  printad  paper  covar*  ara  fllmad 
baginning  with  tha  front  covar  and  anding  on 
tha  laai  paga  with  a  printad  or  illuatratad  impraa- 
*ion.  or  tha  bacli  covar  whan  appropriata.  All 
othar  original  copia*  ara  filmad  baginning  on  tha 
fir*t  paga  with  a  printad  or  illuatratad  impraa- 
aion,  and  anding  on  tha  last  paga  with  a  printad 
or  illuatratad  imprsssion. 


Tha  laat  racordad  frama  on  aach  microficha 
*h*ll  contain  tha  symbol  — ^  Imaaning  "CON- 
TINUED"), or  tha  aymbol  ▼  Imaaning  "END"), 
whichavar  applia*. 


Laa  assmplairaa  originaui  dont  la  couvartura  an 
papiar  a*t  imprim**  *ont  film**  *n  commancani 
par  I*  pramiar  plat  at  an  larminani  soi<  par  la 
darni*ra  paga  qui  compona  una  amprainta 
d'imprassion  ou  d'illustration.  soit  par  la  sacond 
plat,  salon  la  eaa.  Toua  las  autras  asamplairas 
originaux  sont  film4*  an  commancant  par  la 
pramiAr*  paga  qui  comporta  un*     ■>prainta 
d'impraasion  ou  d'illustration  at  »n  tarminant  par 
la  darniira  paga  qui  comporta  una  talla 
•mprainta. 

Un  das  symbolas  suivants  apparaitra  sur  I* 
darnlAra  imaga  da  chaqua  microficha.  salon  I* 
ca*:  I*  aymbola  -<•'  aignifi*  "A  SUIVRE",  la 
aymbol*  ▼  signifi*  "FIN". 


Mapa.  plalas.  charts,  ate.  may  bs  filmad  at 
diffarant  radcction  ratios.  Thosa  too  larga  to  ba 
antiraly  includad  in  on*  axposur*  ara  filmad 
baginning  in  tha  uppar  laft  hand  cornar.  laft  to 
right  and  top  to  bottom,  a*  many  frama*  ** 
raquirad.  Tha  following  diagram*  illu*trata  tha 
method: 


La*  cartaa.  plancha*.  tableaux,  ate.  pauvant  atra 
film**  A  da*  uux  da  reduction  different*. 
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reproduit  en  un  *eul  cliche,  il  e*t  filmi  A  partir 
da  Tangle  supArieur  gauche,  de  geuche  A  droiie. 
et  de  haut  en  ba*.  an  pranant  la  nombro 
d'imagaa  nece**eire.  Le*  diagramme*  suivant* 
illuatrent  la  methode. 


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"  Prospects  " 


The  Honorable  WILLIAM 

RENWICK  RIDDELL 

(Tha  Supmne  Court  oi  Onniio) 


ANNUAL  DINNER 

OF  THE 

New  York  State  Bar  Association 


VTICA,  N.  y.,  JAMUAXY  M.  JtlJ 


Prospects" 


The  Honorable  WILLIAM 


Witti  the  compliments  of 

WiixiAM  Renwick  RinnELL 


UTICA,  N.  Y.,  JANUARY  25,  1913 


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The  HoNORAiiLK  WILLIAM 
REN  WICK  RIDDELL 

'The   Supreme    Court    of    Ontario) 


ANNUAL   DINNER 

OF  THE 

New  York  State  Har  Association 


I'TICA,  N.  Y..  JANUARY  J5,  1913 


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Ml-    1  h:nii,.;iii.  li^n-rv.!  nm--i-  ii"'l  "Mni--   I   i'"!"-  V" 
mil   n..iKf   '.ln'  lari'iiil,  jii.lui..u-  an. I    |.    inal   iii.iuii.i-  ui 
ivhuh    I   iK-Kiii   .in    a.l.lR-v      1    no.T   liUiM   llic  KcKinunm' 
•■  \li,  (  liairm.;ii  aii'l  (;i'nlli-liiiii,"      I  1m1  -i-iilU'l  lir.lia«   ,in 
i:\\i.li..u-  liiH-    ■!  iliiu-rriitiatii.ii  1"      im  ll»-  ''•'"  "  .;iiiili- 
iiu-n  "  .-md  ilR'  (  iiainnan      >  l,an.L;li  .  i.  i     I  lil-'-  -ull  !>■"  ilif 
Ikvimmiiij;  a.l  ipu<l  !■>   in>    urihI,  JuiIki'  llcniiU.  "  .IilIk^^ 
an. I  lau.MT-"      a  .liMiiuiU'ii.   I   lak-    ii.  tliai   i-  -nil  in.. if 
iiiM.li.iii-:  lii'.au-i'  1         111-  iii>    nun. I-  i"  iiiiikT.lan.l  iliat 
tluTc  an-  -..iiic  JiidKes  at  li-a-l  win.  i>riilr  llu'iii^dvi-.  iip..ii 
>till  i-.,i'Mmiint{  ti..  lit-  lawyer-,      i  I .aiiu'lncr.  i      Jucim--  art; 
11. .1  all  like  that  Canailian  .Imlgi.-  "t  »1i..im  I  liaM'  l.ilil  >"" 
iii..ri-    lliaii    I'lu-f.    rtli...    "liiMi    111-     rcii-ni-.l    lii-    |iaUMU 
aiipointint;  liiiu  a  County  Court  Juc'     .  i..nliH  ith  |ir..a-.Mlai 
10   sell   his    library   ami   buy   u   i..«    !,'iui.      i  I.aiiKliUT.  I 
Ni-ilher  may  1  aililrt-ss  you,  as  ii:y  brother  ir..iii  M.niiri-al 
ha^  (loiif.  ■■  Mr.  Cliairiuan,  lailics  ami  Kiullemen."  beiause 
while  1  kn..w  ami  ev<:ryb..<ly  knows  that  there  ;       iailies 
present,   we  iiinjt  not  appjar  to  recognize  the   f:-        it  is 
precisely  a-  if   we   were  Jml},'e>  np..n   llie   I'.ench  trMiij;  a 
ca.se  unable  n.  take  iii.lieiil  cfjuizance  ..i  a  faet  wlii.-li  even 
the  cast-iron  do.;.  ..n   ilu    -treet  know   all  about.      While 
you  know  and  I  km.w  thai  ladie-  are  present,  we  must  not 
say  so.     But  1  do  venture  to  think  that  my  addreis  "  Mr. 
.Chairman,    honored    f;ne-ts    and    ..ther^  "    will    cover    the 
situation. 

When  two  cr  three  weeks  ago  upon  leaving  for  the  sea- 
side for  a  little  recuperati..n  after  a  Canadian  Christmas 
and  New  Year's  —  and  iho-e  of  you  who  have  <pent  Christ- 
mas and  Xew  ^"ear'-  in  Cana.la  will  kn..H  a  linle  recni«ra- 


,in„  i-  iciniml  :ilKT  tlu-e  .e:i>..n-  -  1  »a-  ir.iuotcd  1)>  the 
l!;ir  .\"nci;iiioii  ui  ilic  I'loviiuT  ni  (imari.)  to  :ici  as  tlieir 
rqivc-f.ilaiivc  at  ;!ii^  m^mv^.     1  l.csitatea.     I'or.  uliile  I 
am  a  ineiiilier  ..t  tlu-  I'.ar  of  ( ),iiavio,  1  am  imi  a  member  ot 
llu-  liar  Avsoaaiioi,  of  Ontario;  ,■„.,:.  on  the  omtrary,  I  am 
a   member   of  the   liar  Association  .'f  the  State  of   Xew 
Nnrk.  althoni;h  not  a  nieml)er  of  tlie  I'.ar  of   New   \  ork. 
(  Laus;luer.  I     I  call  you  to  witness  that  1  have  waded  my 
wav  Ihronfjli  that  seiitencc  in  such  a  way  as  t..  prove  con- 
dnsivelv  that  I  have  not  been  devotins  my  whole  attention 
to  the  champagne  this  e>enin-.     ( LauKhter. )     I  thonRht  it 
was  somewhat  anomalous  that  I  should  represent  at  a  nieet- 
iny  of  an  Association  of  which  1  was  a  member,  an  Asso- 
ciation of  which  I  was  not  a  member:  but  it  was  argued  to 
me  that  in  Freemasonry  and  other  societies,  a  member  of 
a  (irand  Lodge  is  allowe.l  to  represent  at  his  lirand  Lodge 
•I  Crand  Lod^c  of  which  he  is  not  a  member.    The  analogy 
seemed  to  be  perfect;  and  I  seemed,  therefore,  to  be  (luah- 
fied  — but  I  am  afraid,  what  we  deprecate  so  much  in  a 
Judge,  the  iwrsonal  e.|uation.  was  n,)t  absent  but  that  the 
wish  was  father  to  the  thoug'ht. 

I  am  here,  in  anv  case,  representing  the  Rar  of  the  Prov- 
ince of  Ontario,  the  lawyers  of  the  Province  of  Ontano; 
and  I  bring  to  vou  their  warmest  greetings.  ( Applause.  1 
Thev  recognize  vou  and  desire  to  he  recognized  by  yon  as 
fellows  in  pursuit  of  the  grand  object  of  justice  and 
rigbtcnsness.  They  recognize  and  know  your  strong  men. 
th^ev  recognize  and  know  your  strong  Judges  and  their 
judgments ;  and  thev  wish  you  all  p.«sible  prosperity,  mater- 
ial or  otherwise.  While  I  am  here  as  such  representative  - 
it  being  I  think  the  fourth  occasion  upon  which  I  have  had 
ihe  opportunitv  and  the  pleasure  of  addressing  an  audience 
of  this  character  —  I  must  confess  that  even  had  my  Asso- 


(.j;,,i,,ii  —  [  mean  t!ie  As^oci:aioll  wliidi  1  rciin-eiit — 
(iniittcil  I'l  iisk  iiiL-  to  rqirescin  them  anil  had  tiiy  Iricml.  Mr. 
Wadhanis.  liy  some  aberration  of  intellect  (liecanse  it  coiild 
only  he  snch  an  aberration  whicli  coiil.l  affect  such  resnlti. 
foryntten  to  >enil  me  an  invitation.  1  believe  1  slionlil  have 
cunu-  witliont  one.  (  Laughter. )  Yon  remember  the  story 
uf  the  little  -ill  ulio  sai.l  to  Iter  mother.  ••  Oh.  mother.  I 
do  just  l.jve  this  cake,  it  is  awfully  K'""'"  'l^'''  ii""l»-'r 
said.  ••  \Vh\.  Mary,  don't  talk  that  way,  yon  on-hi  not  to 
love  anythiii!,'  that  can't  love  you  back,  lliere  is  no  use  ni 
sayiiii;  '  jnst.'  and  don't  say  awfully,  say  '  very.'  "  So  >he 
.saiil.  "  Mother.  1  like  iln>  cake,  it  i-  very  jjood.  Oh.  dear, 
motlier.  I  seem  to  be  talking  about  bread."  (l.anj;liler.  i 
Xovv.  I  can't  use  tlie  lanKua,i;e  that  I  would  like  to  use  to 
you,  siwakin.-  to  the  members  of  the  New  N'nrk  I'.ar. 
because  I  "  am  come  of  the  blood  slower  to  bless  than  to 
ban  "  and  "  Dee|)er  than  speech  our  love,  stronger  than  life 
our  tether.  But  we  do  not  fall  on  the  neck  nor  kiss  when 
we  come  together."  The  words  which  I  must  use  fully  to 
express  the  affection  which  T  bear  toward  the  .\nicrican 
people  and  toward  you  as  some  .if  tlie  .\merican  pe.iple. 
would  be  such  as  no  English  si>eaking  man  uses,  as  a  rule, 
to  another. 

When  I  am  here  meeting  you  again,  I  am  asking  myself 
the  f|ui-tion.  "Where  are  we  at?"  Now.  I  don't  say. 
"  Wliere  am  I  at?"  because  I  am  always  afraid  of  mis- 
apprehension. You  rememlier  the  story  of  tlte  F.nglisliiiian 
who  came  to  this  country  some  years  ago  when  the  expres- 
sion "  Where  am  I  at "  was  in  all  its  vogue.  lie  saiil.  "  I 
don't  understand  why  you  .Xmericans  always  say  "Where 
am  I  at:"  we  say  in  F.ngland.  "Where  his  my  'at?" 
(I.au.ghter.  I  1  don't  say  "  \\'here  am  I  at  "  but  I  say 
"  Where  aie  we  at?" 


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Just  a  week  agu  down  in  Philadelpliia,  I  heard  a  very 
pruniincm  and  learned  member  uf  ilic  Bar  uf  Pliiladeli>ln.i 
^I)eak  in  must  fervent  tones,  with  teafs  in  his  voice,  if  not 
i]i  liis  eve,  bewailing  the  passing  away  of  the  Constitution 
of  England,  the  downfall  of  the  ideal  Parliament  of  which 
lie  had  read  in  Blackstone.  He  assured  us  that  the  Ameri- 
can lawyer  was  a  far  better  judge  of  the  English  Cunstitu- 
tiiin  than  a  Canadian  lawyer  could  possibly  be  of  the  Ameri- 
can Constitution.  That  rather  hit  me  because  t  have 
been  talking  a  good  deal  lately  about  the  Ainericau  Con- 
stitution as  compared  with  the  English  or  the  Canadian 
Constitution.  It  is  true  that  gentleman  spoke  about  the 
King  as  being  one  of  the  "  three  estates  of  the  realm,"  but 
that  is  a  simple  matter  of  tritling  detail  that  I  shall  not 
vlwell  upon.  He  went  on  and  almost  wept  over  the  abolition 
of  check  and  balance.  It  was  in  vain  for  me  to  say  that 
while  a  balance  wheel  was  all  very  well  for  a  stationary 
engine  which  never  moved  from  the  one  spot,  nobody  ever 
saw  one  in  a  locomotive  engine  which  got  somewhere. 

He  wept  over  the  emasculation  of  the  historic  House  of 
Lords  and  execrated  all  change  since  the  time  of  George 
III;  he  said  Canada  and  Great  Britain,  England,  had 
become  democratic,  the  people  (he  said  "  tlie  mob  "  but  of 
course,  he  meant  "the  [wople  "  )  the  people  were  having 
their  ow n  way,  their  own  wicked  will  unchecked.  Then  he 
said  that  the  Americans  are  the  true  conservatives.  Now, 
that  was  a  Philadelphia  man.  (Laughter.)  Of  course,  I 
know  that  some  of  you  do  not  look  upon  Philadelphia  as 
quite  chain-lightning  or  even  up  to  date.  I  am  quite  aware 
of  what  the  New  ^'ork  lady  did  at  a  literary  soiree:  when 
illustrating  the  well-known  book  "  The  Quick  and  the 
Dead."  she  hung  over  her  shoulder  the  names  of  the  two 
cities.  New  York  and  Philadelphia.      ( Laughter. )     But  I 


am  guiiij;  lu  tell  yuu  what  a  Cliicas"  "'an  *aiil;  ami  Chicago 
is  up  to  date  every  time.  Chicago  priiles  lierselt  on  having 
the  ilcrnicr  cri  in  everything  —  in  fact,  when  a  Chicago 
man  was  being  shaved  in  Xew  York  —  in  a  l)arher  sho|>  I 
mean,  not  in  Wall  street — (laughter),  anil  lie  was  asked 
whether  he  would  ha\e  his  hair  cut,  he  said.  "  Xo,  Sir,  I 
never  have  my  hair  cut  in  the  country."  (Laughter.)  .\ 
]>ron)inent  ntember  of  the  Chicago  Bar  not  very  long  ago 
told  nte  —  we  w ere  talking  al)0ut  the  defects  in  the  admin- 
istration of  the  law,  lawyers  always  talk  about  that  and 
even  some  Judges  —  we  were  talking  aljout  the  defects  in 
the  administration  nf  jn-tice  and  he  )'egretted  so]iie  of 
the  defects  in  !)is  Slate;  "But,"  he  added,  "we  got  that 
fron  England."  I  said.  "  \\'hy  in  llie  name  of  com- 
mrui  soise.  don't  y<'U  correct  tlteni  as  they  did  in  I'-tig- 
land?"  "Oh,"  he  says,  "We  are  a  conser\ative  people." 
(Laughter. )  So  hearing  that  front  such  different  sources, 
I  came  to  the  conclusibn  that  the  American  people  were  a 
coiiservative  people;  and  I  Icxiked  to  the  .American  iwople 
to  conserve  everything  that  is  old.  And  particularly  to 
.\tiierican  lawyers,  because  lawyers  are  well-known  to  be 
the  most  conservative  class  of  any  community,  and  I  knew 
there  were  some  reallv  choice  antiques  in  your  practice. 

But  what  do  I  hnd  ?  1  come  here  to  this  city  and  I  titid  that 
the  lawyers  of  this  State  arc  :ryi)ig  to  change  the  rules  of 
practice  of  the  Courts.  Why.  it  is  said  that  they  are  actually 
intending  to  have  a  change  made  in  the  rules  of  practice  so 
as  to  bring  about  a  prompt  and  final  determination  of  all 
legal  controversies  according  to  the  very  substantive  rights 
of  the  parties.  Well,  of  course,  I  am  not  a  member  of  the 
New  York  Bar,  as  I  told  you  before,  although  I  have  the 
honor  to  be  a  member  of  the  Xew  York  Bar  .'\ssociation, 
and  I  must  accept  the  proposition  that  as  things  stand  at 


present,  that  is  iinl  tlie  effect  ni  yiiiir  iiraciice  —  a  tiling 
wliidi  woiiM  liardlv  lie  credihle  were  it  ii"t  fnr  the  suleiTin 
asseveration  cpf  my  lawyer  friemls ;  lint  1  have  im  evidence 
the  iither  way.  What!  are  they  {.'ninK  !■>  have  a  iirnmiit  and 
final  determinatiiin  uf  all  litifjatiun?  Why,  you  remember 
the  story  of  the  linglish  s(ilicitor  whose  son  had  been 
recently  sw orn  in ;  when  lie  had  come  into  the  office,  his 
father  went  away  for  a  six  months'  holiday,  and  when  he 
came  hack  he  said.  "  John,  how  have  yon  been  getting  on?  " 
"  Kirst  rate,"  the  son  leplied.  The  father  said.  "  What 
have  you  done  ?  "  The  son  said,  "  You  know  the  old  case 
of  Jarndyce  against  Jarndyce?  "  The  father  said.  "  Yes." 
The  son  said.  "  That  is  settled."  The  father  said.  "  My 
God,  John,  did  you  settle  that  case? "  The  son  proudly  re- 
plied. "  Yes.  I  have,  father."  "  Oh,  John."  he  says.  "  That 
case  has  paid  the  expenses  of  this  office  for  sixty  years." 
O-aughter.)  That  is  the  sort  of  thing  you  are  going  to 
have  in  New  York ;  your  old  cases  are  going  to  be  settled 
in  a  few  years;  and  .iccording  to  the  very  substantive  rights 
of  the  larties,  too.  What!  do  you  mean  to  tell  me  that 
after  this,  the  man  i.s  not  going  to  win  who  has  the  smartest 
lawver?  That  a  litigant  is  not  going  to  win  according  to 
the  method  in  which  his  lawyer  happens  to  init  his  claim 
upon  paper  ?    Why,  you  are  revolutionizing  matters. 

Goldwin  Smith  used  to  say. —  you  know  Goldwiii  Smith, 
you  have  heard  of  him.  he  came  from  Cornell  by  the  way 
(applause),  but  when  he  got  into  Toronto  he  didn't  want 
to  go  back  again  (laughter),—  you  think  that  is  a  joke,  but 
it  is  „ot  —  (Joldwin  Smith  used  to  say  that  to  expect  the 
lawyer  to  reform  the  practice  of  the  law  is  to  expect 
the  tiger  to  aboli.sli  the  jungle.  And  here  I  find  these 
tigers  actually  engaged  in  abolishing  the  jungle,  not 
old  man-eating  tigers  who  have  lost  their  teeth,  but  tigers 


win.  an-  ilu-  sny  U-:iikM>  ni  ilic  tiKcr  lirui.l;  niy  Irieiid.  Mr. 
.\ln,ii.  licri-,  fur  iii-iaiKC,  .Mr.  Hi.rnlili.acr  i.f  Xi'w  \nrk. 
John  r,.  .Milljnrn.— iiKfr>  oi  iliat  cla>-.  I  i\"  ivl  >ay  anv- 
tliiiiK  al)"iit  the  JikIkc^  "r  ihc  t\-.hiclj,'i-..  lifcaii>t  ynu  never 
can  tell  what  a  Jiiclf;e  h  goinj;  to  do.  .\  Jwlsje  when  lie  seis 
ont  a  refonning  i>  something  like  the  llighlantler,  who 
when  he  gave  up.his  kih,  honght  the  very  largest  pair  of 
trousers  he  oonld  get  in  all  London,  i  l.angliler. )  Re- 
formers are  always  enthusiasts,  and  >ou  never  can  stop 
them:  a  Indgc  turned  reformer  is  a  Habhakuk  cafablc  dc 
tout.     {  Laughter. ) 

1  was  delighted  to  meet  my  friend,  Governor  iJadley, 
here:  indeed,  he  can't  get  rid  of  me!  Kver  since  I  became 
aciiuainted  with  him,  he  and  1  have  continually  run  up 
against  each  other;  and  I  was  delighted  to  meet  hiiti  again, 
and  regret  very  much  that  he  is  not  able  to  be  with  ns  this 
evening.  In  his  State  f>f  .Missouri,  I  understand  the  law- 
yers have  every  now  and  then,  gotten  together  and 
endeavored  to  have  a  rectification  and  reform  made  in  the 
practice  of  rhe  law;  but  the  farmers  tiiere.  as  in  some  other 
States,  are  in  the  majority  in  the  Legislature;  and  they 
alwavs  believe  that  where  the  lawyers  desire  anything,  they 
want  it  for  their  own  personal  advantage;  and  they  have 
accordinglv  always  voted  down  any  amendment  that  the 
lawvers  'wanted.     Of  course,  that  is  foolish. 

But  I  understand,  in  this  State  the  lawyers  have  the  npi>er 
hand.  1  gather  that  is  so  from  what  I  see;  because  if  the 
audience  that  I  see  before  me  and  the  like  of  them  are  not 
able  to  govern  the  State,  then  the  State  does  not  deserve  to  be 
governed.  I  understand  that  the  lawyers  of  this  State  have 
control  of  the  Legislature,  and  that  being  so,  why,  then  this 
act  must  necessarily  go  through.  But  what  are  you  think- 
ing about?     Demetrius,  the  silversinith  of  Kphesus,  knew 


lietn-r,  liu  called  together  tll'>^e  who  were  engiiged  in  cer- 
tain iiccnpatioii>  and  showed  them  that  their  crat't  was  in 
danger  ot"  being  set  at  nanght,  \vheretii>on  they  were  all 
tilled  with  wrath  and  cried  "(ireat  is  Diana  of  tlie  Eplie- 
sians."  Is  this  body  of  lawyers  less  loyal  to  their  ancient 
nivstery  than  those  who  made  money  out  of  her.  were  to 
I)i,.na  of  the  Ephesians?  Are  you  going  to  have  that 
beautiful  amendment  passed  so  tliat  jwople  av.  to  come  into 
their  own,  all  without  a  word  of  protest  froir,  the  old-titiie 
lawyers?  The  first  thing  you  will  know  is  this  —  ■  some  law- 
yer wlio  has  paid  attention  to  practice  instead  ot  to  >ub- 
stamive  law  will  find  himself  in  the  |).isition  of  a  lawyer 
whom  I  knew  wiio  ilevoted  all  his  attention  to  bankruptcy 
law.  and  one  morning  he  woke  up  and  fijund  Congress  had 
repealed  all  tlie  law  he  knew.  ( Laughter,  i  There  is 
remaining,  however,  a  little  bit  of  comfort  for  the  "  master 
of  pr.ictice."  While  the  Courts,  I  see  by  the  proiwsed 
amendment,  are  to  have  the  jxiwer  of  disregarding  all  mis- 
takes, errors,  irregularities  or  inaccuracies  in  any  stage  of 
a  case  so  long  as  it  does  not  affect  the  substantive  riglits  of 
the  parties,  just  give  me  a  good  old  timer  of  a  Judge,  give 
nie  one  of  the  old  "practice"  sort,  and  1  will  guarantee^ 
almost  guarantee  —  that  nine  out  of  ten  irregu'lariiies  and 
mistakes  will  be  found  to  be  "  affecting  the  substantive 
rights  of  the  parties."  (I  aughter.^  I  can  almost  hear  the 
argument.  I  can  almost  formulate  those  profound  maNims 
of  Constitutional  law.  I  can  almost  he.ir  the  ardent  and 
earnest  adjurations  of  learned  counsel  to  t!ie  Judge;  and 
what  counsel  don't  think  of.  it  is  liighly  probable  the  Judge 
may.  You  remember.  I  supixise.  the  story  of  the  little  girl 
whose  mother  caught  her  figluing  with  a  neighbor's  girl 
and  she  says.  "  Why.  Mary,  how  in  earth  did  you  cotne  to 
do  that?     Surely  Satan  mnst  have  put  it  in  your  mind  to 


act  till;  way  yoii  were  duinj,'."  She  sayi,  "  Well,  mother, 
iiiayhe  Satan  (/;'(/  icll  me  to  |iiill  her  hair,  hut  I  tli'Hinht  '■ut 
kicking  lier  shin^,  myself."  (Laughter,  i  It  may  he  the 
lawyer  will  have  tu  put  scime  thuughts  into  the  oUl-tinie 
technical  Judge,  hut  he  will  think  of  most  ohjections  him- 
self. Judges  arc  naturally  a  technical  class;  1  kuuw  them;  1 
live  amcjng  them,  and  am  one  of  them.  I  know  all  about  tliem. 
and  that  it  is  liard  to  get  a  Judge  out  of  the  old  way.  Hut 
allowing  full  discount  for  conservative  lawyers  and  techni- 
cal Judges,  what  does  all  this  change  mean?  Does  it  not 
mean  that  the  law  in  tliis  State  is  to  cease  to  he  .a  game  to 
be  played  according  to  certain  prescriheil  rules.  \\  ith  the 
Judge  on  the  Bench  simply  an  umpire  to  see  that  the  rules 
are  observed,  and  with  *'ie  result  that  the  smartest  man  will 
win?  That  alt  parties  will  now  receive  their  rights  accord- 
ing to  the  very  facts,  that  the  State  is  interfering  with  a 
strong  hand  to  vindicate  the  rights  of  the  oppressed  and  the 
wronged,  that  the  majesty  of  the  ]>eople  rises  and  says  let 
every  man  have  his  due?  That  being  so,  my  friends,  has 
not  the  lawyer  once  more  vindicated  his  right  to  exist,  has 
he  not  once  more  shown  himself  the  unselfish  friend  of  the 
people,  doing  good  to  the  people  even  at  the  exjwnse  of 
himself?  Is  not  the  Professor's  "tiger"  of  the  jungle 
shown  to  be  not  the  tiger,  but  the  hunter  driving  out  from 
the  jungle,  banishing  all  evil  and  ravening  beasts  of  prey? 
And  that  being  so,  I  am  reconciled  to  the  loss  of  much  legal 
and  technical  learning  and  acumen.  Not  again  in  this  State 
will  a  lawyer  like  Parke  visit  a  sick  friend  and  cheer  him 
up  with  a  beautiful  demurrer,  but  real  law  will  not  suffer  — • 
and  better  still,  the  client  with  an  honest  case  will  not  suffer. 
In  this,  as  in  all  else,  the  people  are  coming  into  their  own. 
This  nation  is  about  to  try  an  experiment,  an  experiment 
of   tremendous    importance    as   compared    witli    anything 


IJ 


::uol\iil  ill  a  i-han;;f  in  ilic  praciicu  ui  ilif  lau.  I'lii^-  nation 
has  rt'ccntly  ^"uv  iln'nr.^'li  ii^  (inadrcnnial  |>ri'i-i-c(iinj,'  ni 
elt'ctinj^  its  nn>nai\-ii  tnr  the  next  ttw  \cars  —  it  has  hi-t-n 
wt'll  said  that  the  Anterican  nation  fR)m  time  to  time  elects 
its  monarch  t'T  a  limited  time  —  it  Icx^ked  a  short  time  aj;o 
a.-  tliotif;h  It  mi^'ht  be  fipr  an  unlimited  time.  I  l.antjhter. ) 
The  kinillv  jjentleman,  the  able,  diligent,  iiainstakini;. 
icciirate  and  learned  Jndpe  has  tailed  to  strike  the  imagina- 
tion or  to  awake  the  enthusiasm  of  the  American  people. 
He  lias  sa'd  with  a  melancholy  smile,  "  I  do  not  seem  to 
have  been  a  grand  success."  To  the  gibe  that  a  Mormon 
carried  in  Iiis  trousers'  jittcket  one-half  of  bis  electciral  votes, 
there  was,  there  could  be  no  answ  er ;  and  yet  even  that  small 
number  of  votes  is  a  larger  numlier  than  was  received  by  a 
very  great  predecessor,  John  Jay,  the  first  Chief  Justice  of 
the  I'nited  States.  John  Jay  once  received  the  three  votes 
of  Connecticut;  but  then  we  all  know  Crmnecticiit  knows  a 
good  thing  when  she  sees  it;  an<l  has  not  lost  that  i>ower  to 
the  present  time  —  as  witness  the  election  of  our  friend, 
Simeon  Kakhvin.  as  her  (Jovernor.  (Applause.  I  I  am 
fain  to  l>elieve,  I  desire  to  lielieve,  that  the  rejection,  if  I 
may  so  call  it.  using  I  think  not  a  liarsh  term,  of  William 
Howard  Taft  (applause),  whose  friend  I  am  glad  t.i  call 
myself,  whose  admirer  as  Judge  and  lawyer,  every  lawyer 
is  who  knows  his  legal  record  (applause)  —  I  venture  to 
hope  and  to  think  that  his  rejection,  not  dislionorable.  is  not 
due  to  the  same  cause  as  the  rejection  of  John  Jay.  His- 
tory tells  us  that  John  Jay  was  sent  abroad  by  George 
Washington  to  negotiate  a  treaty  with  the  mother  country, 
to  put  an  end  to  the  difficulties  beween  the  mother  and  the 
daughter.  He  gave  up  his  high  (losition  as  Chief  Justice  of 
the  Supreme  Court  of  the  I'nited  States  in  order  that  he 
might  thus  serve  his  country ;  and  while  he  did  not  secure 


'i 


llif  irtais  iov  Hliicli  lie  |iiTlKip>  li:ul  liiipi'il  and  I'ur  uliicli 
lie  laliorcd,  duulitlcss  li.;  bruiitjlit  back  a  tii-aiy  a^  tavmalili' 
a>  could  be  ubiaiiivd  under  the  circimi>lamc^.  \\  htii  lu' 
rcliinied,  the  Deincuratic-Repiiblican  partv  oncacl  liiin 
wilh  curses  ami  oblcMjuy;  burned  biui  in  el'liKy,  denuiniced 
him  as  a  trailur;  and  tliat  man  of  wlioni  Daniel  Webster 
could  say.  "  When  the  sixjtless  ermine  of  the  juilicial  rolje 
fell  iin  John  Jay  it  touched  ncilhing  less  spotless  than  itself," 
was  ranked  with  the  vilest  of  the  vile.  'I'lii^  ),'reai  Stale 
indeed,  stood  by  him  and  re-elected  him  (juvcriior;  but  his 
t,'reat  heart  was  broken  and  he  retired  into  seclusion  and 
obscurity,  dyin(;  lonj;  l)efnre  man's  allotted  a(;e.  U'asbinj;- 
ton  himself  did  not  escajw  calumny.  Hut  wisdom  is  justi- 
fied of  her  children.  The  treaty  which  John  Jay  negotiated 
in  1794,  "Jay's  Treaty."  the  lieginninK  of  modern  inter- 
national arbitration,  now  forms  Jay's  best  claim  to  immor- 
tality. The  methods  laid  down  in  that  treaty  of  1 18  years 
ago  have  been  followed  time  and  again  bv  these  two  ^reat 
kindred  |>eople  in  order  to  determine  matters  in  controversy 
between  them  On  nineteen  subjects  altogether  have  these 
two  iwople  deemed  it  proi^r  to  determine  the  i|uestions  in 
contro\ersy  between  them  by  international  arbitration, 
either  by  arbitrators  apjOTinted  by  the  governments  them- 
selves, or  by  arbitrators  in  part  apiiointed  by  foreign  poten- 
tates, or  by  foreign  potentates  themselves  decidin.g,  or  l>v  the 
judicial  decision  of  the  Hague  Tribtinal.  This  city  is  proud 
indeed  to  be,  and  ou  nt  to  be  proud  to  be,  the  scene  of  an 
award  made  on  the  i8th  of  June,  1822,  very  nearly  a  hun- 
dred years  ago.  when  Messrs.  Porter  and  Barclay,  appointed 
under  the  si.xth  article  of  the  Treaty  of  ("ihcnt.  1814.  laid 
down  the  international  Ixiundary  for  hundreds  of  miles  by 
lake  and  plain  and  mountain  and  stream,  an  award  which 
was  adopted  by  both  ]>arties  cordiallv  and  without  hesitation 
and  which  has  stood  the  test  of  time.   It  is  true,  indeed,  that 


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lliiMnmiMi  ihi'  lirst  iiiiiTiuiliMiiiil  awiinl.  Iiiraii-i-  -I'Vfn  \cai- 
before,  llcilmts  and  Barclay  scttltil  the  internaliiMial  byimd- 
ary  at  l'as»aiii;i(iiiciilily  Hay;  but  that  has  nirt  1  tmilerstaml 
been  entirely  satisfactory  to  the  I'niteil  States  in  recent 
years,  l-'or  while  tlie  Grand  M  .nan  and  most  of  the  other 
islands  were  i,'iven  to  New  Urunswick  and  .\'i>va  Scotia,  to 
the  I'tnted  States  were  awarded  the  Islands  of  I'Vcderick, 
Duilley  atid  Moose.  Voti  all  know  about  "Ilra7.il  where 
the  nuts  come  from,"  hut  1  dare  say  some  of  yon  do  not 
know  of  "  Moose  Island  where  the  Moose  C')uie  from." 
I  l.an.ijhier. )  "  l-'niis  ,-l  (irij/n  iitili  " —  or  is  it  '■  hoiii'r  " —  I 
do  not  know,  I  am  not  an  American  citizen.  ( l.auKhier.  1 
It  has  been  by  arbitration  determined  what  are  the  inter- 
national boundaries  for  thcmsands  of  miles  and  in  climes 
temi>erate  and  aatic,  what  simi  the  United  States  should 
pay  for  lanil  of  British  subjects  which  it  had  confiscated  in 
the  west,  what  Britain  shouM  i)ay  because  her  defective 
municinal  laws  allo-vcd  an  Alabama  to  esca|)e  and  destroy 
American  shipping,  what  she  should  pay  for  the  St.  Alban's 
Ru'd,  what  lis!'  Americans  shotdd  be  allowed  to  take  and 
wh;-t  sum  the  United  States  should  pay  for  lish  they  should 
not  have  taken,  what  seals  the  Canadians  should  be  allowed 
to  take  and  what  sum  they  should  be  paid  for  seals  which 
the\  ought  to  have  been  allowed  to  take;  what  Britain 
should  |>ay  Americans  for  slaves  who  nuiuiuf;  away  from 
their  American  masters,  from  the  land  of  the  free  and  the 
home  of  the  brave  fpresumably  because  they  were  not  free 
and  it  was  no  use  being  brave),  had  reached  British  terri- 
tory by  reaching  a  British  man  of  war.  That  is  a  chapter 
in  the  history  of  your  country  and  mine  of  which  I  as  a 
Britisher,  am,  perhaps  inordinately,  provid. 
"  Slave:'  cannot  live  in  England;  if  their  lungs 
Receive  our  air,  that  moment  they  are  free 
Thev  touch  our  Country  and  their  shackles  fall." 


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111  If*.'.',  allir  ilic  War  oi  i8i.'.  (.iicai  llniain  paid  •■\  •' 
5i'<Ki.(ioo  iLf  slaves  «lio  liuil  run  a»ay  fruiii  tlicir  iiiasicr.'. 
in  Irtc  .\nii'rii.a  and  put  tlicir  I'l'ti  un  "  ilit-  luaiii-  "  ^liip, 
a  iiritisli  ship,  thereby  becuniing  I'rcv  men  ami  Ijitjland 
oinlil  iiMi  jjivi;  ihcin  up.  All  ui  tlitsc  subjccls  liavt  bt'tn 
ili'tfniiined  during  this  time;  and  uuly  umc  'ia>  it  biTii 
Imu!   :  in.vc5>ary  tu  call  in  «ar.    War,  my  iriciuU,  as  1  have 

>  II  said  is  III,'  short  and  ugly  word  in  a  laii(,'uaKe  that 
Is  lull  OI  short  and  uyly  worils.  No  man  has  any  good  to 
say  ol  war  except,  indeed,  an  occasional  llishup.  1  read 
the  other  day  in  a  newspaper  —  and  God  I'orbid  that  I 
should  judge  any  man  by  what  I  see  of  his  sayings  in  a 
newspaper,  ihe\  talk  ;ihi'ui  what  I  am  supposed  tu  have  said 
soinelimes  and  alniosi  always  wrmigly — ■  Init  I  saw  that  a 
Bislii'p  the  other  day,  I  think  in  Philadelphia,  had  spoken 
highly  in  favor  of  war,  beciuse  God  brings  good  out  of 
war.  God  could  bring  good  out  of  an  epidemic  of  cholera 
or  small  i>u\;  but  I  never  yet  heard  that  advanced  as  an 
argument  for  spreading  the  virus  of  either  or  for  puttin;;  a 
stop  to  i|uarantine.  When  I  hear  of  Bishops  talking  that 
way.  were  it  not  for  the  fact  iliat  Bishops  of  another 
I'rotestant  Communion  pray  daily  "Give  peace  in  our 
times,  oh  Lord."  I  might  be  Pharisaical  enough  to  thank 
(iod  I  am  a  Presbyterian  of  a  church  that  knows  nothing 
about  Bishii|is. 

There  are  existing  now  iu>  less  than  ihree  permanent 
j'rrangements  l>et\veen  your  |K?ople  aiul  mine:  and  wc  have 
had  a  century  of  peace.  We  hear  so  often  the  story 
of  war  and  battle  and  blood,  but  who  has  told  the 
siniy  of  the  century  of  peace?  Only  once  during  that  time 
or  from  shortly  before  that,  was  it  found  necessary  to  bring 
in  the  liloody  .-lid  of  war.  That  War  of  i8i_>  lias  not  yet 
wrought  out  it-  full  demon's  work,  hut  thank  God  the  hate. 


till'  fiiiiiiiv  niKi'iiiliTi'il  |j\  ii  i>  iImii;  ,111.  riirri'  \\m 
.•iiiiriluT  arliiinilinii  trvaiv  wliicli  mir  iriiMi.l,  I'ro^iiliMit  lalt, 
(U--iii-il  In  lia\c  inailc  U-umtii  tlu'-f  two  |k;.i|iIi';  Inn  he 
faili-cl.  Ill'  ,ai(l  ilio  otIuT  ijav.  "  W  licii  I  lu'nciiiaici!  a  iriviiy 
with  l'.iii;laiiil  ■•iiicl  with  I'laiui-.  I  had  a  ilriMiii.  lint  I  Hiikc." 
'I'lu-  clicani  111'  hail  Ha»  that  we  «iTi-  liy  ircaiif  lii-tHci'ii  the 
I'liiteil  State,  and  the  •several  [■".iini|waii  omntries  and 
'  rteen  these  ennntiies  aiiiiruaehhit;  rapiilly  to  an  arbitral 
I  '  fur  all  inteniaiiunal  di»|>iiies.  The  ),'reate»t  iiii- 
fiirtime  that  this  deneratiuii  ha-  -een  i<  the  wakening  .if 
I're«ideiit  Tail.  I  Applause.  I  I  am  not  here  to  tiiiil  fanlt 
with  or  to  lecture  any  |K'ople  or  any  nation.  The  people 
and  the  Knvcrnment  of  the  I'niteil  States  are  the  Knanlians 
and  the  jiidKts  of  their  own  honor:  and  it  w.inlil  lie 
imiHTtineiU.  ontsider  as  I  ant.  to  siiK(;est  anything  to  thetn 
as  regards  the  unardinj;  of  their  honor  —  and  let  me  say 
now.  soniethint;  I  had  nearly  for),'otleii.  I  don't  li':e  yonr 
talking  aliont  nie  as  lieii  •,'  a  foreigner.  I  ,1111  not.  I  am  not 
an  .\nieriean.  !  atii  a  Canadian  to  the  last  dro])of  niv  M.iod. 
I  am  a  llri'ish  snbject  and  prond  of  it.  .ind  have  no  desire 
to  ehan;;e  my  nationality  or  my  allegiance;  bnt  where  the 
tw.)  riajfs  with  the  same  red,  white  and  hlne,  althouKh 
dilTeretitly  arraiiKcd,  float,  wherever  there  are  two  people! 
of  kindred  origin,  of  the  same  language,  who  worship  God 
unile.  the  same  form,  who  have  the  same  magnificent  his- 
tory in  the  past  —  no  one  born  imder  either  flag  should  be 
called  a  foreigner  when  he  is  under  the  other,  (.\pplause. ) 
Wherever  I  hear  the  English  language  spoken  and  know 
the  I'.nglish  common  law  the  rule  for  decision,  there  I  am 
not  an  alien  or  a  foreigner.  ( .\pplanse. )  There  is  at  ;!ie 
present  time  an  agitation  going  on  which  looks  ri<  though 
there  might  be  trouble  bttwern  the  two  |)eople.  \,)  fear. 
It  is  not  coming.     It  is  not  fated.    It  is  not  possible.     Xo 


(Iniilii  :l^  M  all  niiu'-  when  ilii'it  ii  a  .liitiifiuc  'i  •i\i>nf:ii. 
tluTi'  apinMr  ihnM'  Im  iici-|i  and  xildiiT.  ilin-i'  .li-.trilinl  l)\  a 
grviy  I  i>ii'Mi\.ii  \c  |)a|K'i'  i:i  I  ii'iniu  a«  |>iilj|ii-  ciUMiiiK,  hIm 
ilf'iri'  and  irv  in  ,iir  ii|i  iMiiiiitv  lii'twiTii  the  tH'.  |>i'ip|ili'»  — 
but  llicy  art  i|...inifd  In  di«a|i|niiiltiu-iii  and  mn-t  In-  dii.mii'd 
t'l  di^a|l|loinnlll•nt.     ( .\|)i)l'  .i«i'.  i 

'llie  lin|it  of  llic  World  lo-dav  i-  )n  ilic  l'.n;,'Ii.li  -pi'aUni;,' 
|>i'n|iif~.     ( .\|i|)lan-i'.  I      I  don't  sa>    tin-  I.MKli-hniiMi.  tlu-ri- 

is  not  a  ilro|i  .pt  luiKli'li  111 I  in  ni>  ludv      (  Applan-i'.  i     I 

do  not  say  tin-  .\nj,do-Saxon.  I  am  iimI  .\nnK-  "r  Sax.  .11 
I  do  not  ■s-iy  llrili«li  t)ci-ansc.  lirili-li  indi-fd  a-  1  am.  ilii' 
(frrater  part  of  tlif  hlnnlisli  s|H'akinj;  |n-opU  d..i-  iioi  ri-idi' 
in  :i  Ilriti-li  conntry  I  -ay  ilic  I'.ir^li-li  -|H'akiii;;  people, 
wlictliiT  thoy  III-  l''.nKdi>li.  Scotcli,  hi-li.  I  iaidii-,  Highland. 
AnK'ricafi  or  {■ri'iicli  Canadian -- tlif  liopf  .if  ilu'  world 
to-day  is  in  tlic  I'lnjjlisli  speaking'  pcopUv  No« .  I  have  no 
palicm-c  witli  tliosc  tK'opIc  who  »ay.  "  \\  ii.it  arc  von  ( ■.in.i- 
dians  (joinn  to  do  with  tin-  I'Vencli  ranadi:ni»;  "  I  a'n  prond 
of  tilt  ImtiicIi  Can.idians,  'llie  '''rcnch  Canadian  in  almn- 
dantly  able  to  look  onl  tor  biniself;  and  I  for  ont  vonld 
look  HiKin  it  as  a  distimt  loss  i  1  our  life,  pnlilic  am'  ,..ivatc. 
if  that  virile,  piotnresipic.  splendid  rate  were  to  clisappear. 
f  .\pplause. )  lint  be  betonies  of  imiiortante  in  the  world 
and  internationally  only  when  he  s|ieaks  Knglish.  France, 
the  pioneer  for  liberty  and  freedom  of  tlionght  for  genera- 
tions, now  has  all  she  can  attend  to  in  looking  to  her  north- 
eastern boundary  and  ^Miardin);  against  die  ituadtr  —  a 
niRlilmare  ever  present,  (a-nnany  of  the  same  bl.i.id  as 
yon  and  T,  .a  splendid  and  noble  nation,  is  ever  watching 
against  the  Serb  and  the  Slav,  she  is  watching  Russia,  sl-.e 
is  watching  to  tlie  sonth.  she  has  all  she  can  attend  to'  tior 
is  there  any  ho|)e  in  Rnssia  for  anothe-  hnndred  years,  or 
in  .\ustria.  or  Italy,  or  Spain.     Each  one  of  these  nations 


li;i^  all  ihf  burden  it  can  bear  —  its  own  burden.  Who  then 
is  it  that  will  lake  up  "  the  white  man's  burden?"  Who  is 
it  will  take  up  the  white  man's  burden  and  do  the  world's 
work,  work  which  must  be  done?  The  exceedingly  bitter 
cry  of  the  slave  is  rising  daily  before  the  throne  of  God,  the 
scalding  tear  of  the  oppressed  and  of  the  wronged  and  the 
poor  is  hourly  bedewing  His  footstool  —  who  will  still  the 
one  and  dry  the  other  if  not  the  English  speaking  people? 
The  English  speaking  people  are  the  hope  of  the  world. 
The  eternal  statute  of  heaven  has  made  us  one,  the  imperial 
degree  of  (iod  liiniself  has  joined  us  together  and  whom 
God  hatli  joined  together,  let  no  man  put  asunder. 
(Applause.) 


